A San Juan Capistrano City Council member is calling on local schools to increase security and suggests arming "willing staff, teachers and/or parents."

Councilman Derek Reeve sent a letter Wednesday to Capistrano Unified School District officials, five days after a school shooting spree in Newtown, Conn., resulted in 28 deaths, including 20 children.

"As a father of two school-age sons and as an elected official representing the good people of San Juan Capistrano, I am quite concerned regarding the health and safety of our most vulnerable members of our community, our children," Reeve wrote. "Efforts must be taken to empower teachers, staff and parents to protect our children."

Reeve did not call for arming all teachers but urged the district to allow those who own guns and are trained to use them to take their firearms to school in case they're needed to ward off an attack.

"Like school districts everywhere, we're getting lots of well-intended suggestions and ideas on how to increase students' security and safety in school. While we appreciate the councilman's interest in this topic, we will not entertain any proposals to have staff members carry firearms," Farley said.

"The district's safety and security systems are constantly evaluated and improved. Whenever there is an event like we had in Connecticut, we go back to the drawing board and look at what implications and what lessons are learned from those experiences and we make further modifications."

The principals of San Juan Capistrano's Del Obispo and Harold Ambuehl elementary schools, Marco Forster Middle School and San Juan Hills High School would not comment about Reeve's letter and referred all questions about it to the district office.

The principals of San Juan and Kinoshita elementary schools could not be reached for comment.

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Reeve has advocated for guns in the past. In 2011 he presented a resolution to the council to relax gun restrictions in San Juan Capistrano and allow the open carrying of unloaded weapons in city parks. The resolution failed.